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Routine Maintenance Sheet

Car ______________________
_______________ Ride heights                #   date
_______________ Scale                  ___   _________
_______________ Toe out
_______________ Wash car - wash out radiator      ___   _________
_______________ Battery charged
_______________ Engine oil/filter            ___   _________
_______________ Coolant
_______________ Power steering fluid            ___   _________
_______________ Transmission oil
_______________ Differential oil               ___   _________
_______________ Grease all suspension, u-joints
_______________ Wheel bearings            ___   _________
_______________ Brake fluid               
_______________ Brake rotors, calipers and pads      ___   _________
_______________ Air cleaner/carburetor fittings/bolts      
_______________ Fuel filter               ___   _________
_______________ Valve lash
_______________ Ignition timing/distributor clamp      ___   _________
_______________ Tighten header bolts
_______________ Belts and hoses            ___   _________
_______________ Control arms and bolts
_______________ Trailing arm and track bar bolts      ___   _________
_______________ Motor, transmission and starter bolts   
_______________ Shifter linkage/ Clutch linkage      ___   _________
_______________ Drive shaft bolts
_______________ Shock mounts
_______________ Steering components
_______________ Body mounts
_______________ Wheels and tire wear
_______________ Bumper bolts


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this is my routine maintenance, no repair or setup. allthough some does overlap.

cut the filter open to see if any damage is occuring

Quick and easy trick with the oil filter, attach a small magnet to the filter with a gear clamp, then when you cut open the filter all the iron particles will be stuck to the side of the filter where the magnet is.  I have used the magnets that are bonded to the inside of G.M. diff covers, works great!!

longstreet, i am not sure, my dad did it....I wasn;t there that night...haha I play baseball too in a mens fastball league....

I can ask him tonight though...

Longstreet what do they cost new? I see them listed around 1300.00+ US.


Places will do this for your car at a garage for about 175.00+


The guy in the video says this every year. I don't think I would save that much in gas.

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Quote from: longstreet on February 25, 2009, 02:06:47 PM

motorvac caron cleaning.

this guys is a knob, it will do that but he left out the most important function, it will remove a alrge part of the carbon from the engine itself. years ago mechanics told us to take the car on a highway run to blow out the carbon, this does not work since the gas co. had to remoce parrifin additives, now the carbon sticks to the piston the valve ect. only two ways to get it out chemically lika this or as thayne said with his mini. disassembly and clean.i recommended to my customers about every 2-3 years or 30000kms. you will not save enough in fuel to offset the cost but it will extend the life of your engine.

my dad has one (we own a shop) we tried it once on the lil 4 banger and weren't that thrilled...we have had better results on bigger displacement engine..don't know why...

thayne to avoid pulling the head try a motorvac caron cleaning. i have did that on a 4.3 before teardown and was blown away by how much carbon was gone. then i bought the machine.

to quote ricky booby "i wanna go fast"

use a multi page check list for the whole car after each rac. also up on jack stands to relax suspinsion, on the engine if no problems just fluid levels, will do a plug check at the track during hot laps. change out valve spring once during the year and oil change every second race and cut the filter open to see if any damage is occuring